From Early Jurassic intracontinental subduction to Early-Middle Jurassic slab break-off magmatism during the Cimmerian orogeny in the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, Iran

N Shabanian, F Neubauer - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aims to review the Jurassic to Cretaceous tectonic setting of the Sanandaj-Sirjan
Zone (SaSZ), the inner part of the Zagros orogen. For many years, the SaSZ was interpreted …

[HTML][HTML] Metamorphic remnants of the Variscan Orogeny across the Alps and their tectonic significance

M Roda, MI Spalla, M Filippi, JM Lardeaux, G Rebay… - Geosciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Lithospheric slices preserving pre-Alpine metamorphic imprints are widely described in the
Alps. The Variscan parageneses recorded in continental, oceanic, and mantle rocks suggest …

Deformation, crustal melting and magmatism in the crustal-scale East-Variscan shear zone (Aiguilles-Rouges and Mont-Blanc massifs, Western Alps)

J Vanardois, P Trap, F Roger, J Melleton… - Journal of Structural …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Aiguilles-Rouges and Mont-Blanc massifs represent a segment of a crustal-
scale transpressional shear zone named the East Variscan Shear Zone (EVSZ) along which …

[HTML][HTML] Constraining the timing of evolution of shear zones in two collisional orogens: fusing structural geology and geochronology

R Carosi, C Montomoli, S Iaccarino, B Benetti… - Geosciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, constraining the timing of shear activity has been one of the main topics
of research about the tectono-metamorphic evolution of orogenic belts. We present a review …

Current applications using key mineral phases in igneous and metamorphic geology: perspectives for the future

S Volante, E Blereau, M Guitreau, M Tedeschi… - 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The study of magmatic and metamorphic processes is challenged by geological
complexities like geochemical variations, geochronological uncertainties and the …

HT overprint of HP granulites in the Oisans–Pelvoux Massif: Implications for the dynamics of the Variscan collision in the external Western Alps

JB Jacob, E Janots, S Guillot, D Rubatto, K Fréville… - Lithos, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Oisans–Pelvoux massif belongs to the Paleozoic basement of the External
western Alps and records high temperature (HT) metamorphism associated with intense …

Transtension or transpression? Tectono-metamorphic constraints on the formation of the Monte Grighini dome (Sardinia, Italy) and implications for the Southern …

A Petroccia, R Carosi, C Montomoli, S Iaccarino… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
This work presents an integrated structural, kinematic, and petrochronological study of the
Monte Grighini dome within the Variscan hinterland–foreland transition zone of Sardinia …

Crucial role of water-present melting in metagranite: Implications for the instigation of crustal-scale shear zones

J Vanardois, P Trap, D Marquer - Geology, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Where, when, and why large-scale shear zones nucleate and propagate into the continental
lithosphere are critical issues that challenge the research in tectonics. The East Variscan …

Crustal thickening, exhumation and metamorphic cooling of Neoproterozoic eclogites in NE Brazil: Timescale for the assembly of West Gondwana

A Ferreira, G Stevens, EL Dantas, RA Fuck… - Gondwana …, 2025 - Elsevier
The high-pressure followed by high-temperature metamorphism related to the evolution of
collisional orogens is the expected Pressure-Temperature-time (PTt) path for modern-style …

Discovery of Variscan orogenic peridotites in the Pelvoux massif (western Alps, France)

JB Jacob, E Janots, C Cordier… - BSGF-Earth Sciences …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Small bodies of mantle-derived peridotites and other ultramafic rocks are commonly found in
exhumed lower crustal units of collisional orogens. They provide a direct record of the …